St Dominic's Centre For Hearing Impaired Children

Education NSW introduces St Dominic's Centre For Hearing Impaired Children in Mayfield, for all your education and learning needs.

St Dominic’s Centre for Hearing Impaired Children celebrates 135 continuous years of quality education for deaf and hearing impaired children in 2010.

The Dominican Sisters travelled from Ireland to establish Australia’s first Catholic school for Deaf students in Newcastle. Established in 1875 in Perkins St, the school was moved to Waratah 13 years later and in 1993 St Dominic’s was established as a new facility at Mayfield and named after the pioneering Dominican Sisters.

The purpose-built centre is designed to reduce the amount of ambient noise entering the building providing an environment which has excellent listening conditions and is advantageous for children who are using amplified residual hearing or cochlear implants to develop listening and speech.

Students have individualised educational programs that promote the development of listening skills, language skills, academic skills and positive social outcomes.
The school works closely with families, therapists and partner school staff to achieve individual goals for each student